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Autism and ADHD: does the global rise in diagnosed neurodivergence reflect increased awareness of undiagnosed cases?

bmj · 2026-03-09 · canonical JSON source

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Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are unhelpful. But Alastair Santhouse and Traolach Brugha argue that more factors are at play, not least a widening of already vague definitions